May 27th is

International Heritage Breeds Day *________________________________________________________________

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Islam – Beginning of Ramadan

Australia – Reconciliation Week *

Bolivia – Día de la Madre *

Guadeloupe, Saint Martin –Abolition of Slavery

Nigeria – Children’s Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

1153 – Malcolm IV is crowned King of Scotland

1199 – John ‘Lackland’ becomes King of England

1668 – Three colonists are expelled from Massachusetts for being Baptists

1703 – Tsar Peter the Great of Russia founds the city of Saint Petersburg

Peter I, by Valentin Serov

1792 – Julia Evelina Smith born, American suffragist, author and translator, known for Abby Smith and her Cows about tax resistance in the struggle for suffrage and for translating the Bible from the original languages

1812 – After an uprising in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is put down for a second time by Spanish General Goyeneche, the women of the city are gathered by Manuela Gandarilla, an old blind woman, to take up the arms of their dead and wounded in the Battle of La Coronilla, named for the hill where it is fought. They are slaughtered by the Spanish. Commemorated as Mothers’ Day * also known as “Day of the Heroines of Coronillas”

1819 – Julia Ward Howe born, American poet and songwriter; wrote lyrics of The Battle Hymn of the Republic; first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

1837 – Wild Bill Hickok born, American Western folk hero; scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, and showman, among many other occupations

1849 – Alzina Parsons Stevens born, American labor leader and journalist, notable for her work at Hull House and as a leader of the Knights of Labor

1888 – Louis Durey born, French composer known for choral works

1907 – A second wave of Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco during the reconstruction of the city after the 1906 earthquake, causing 78 deaths; the first plague epidemic in the U.S. began in San Francisco in March 1900, but early denials prevented stamping it out until 1904

1944 – Alain Souchon born, French singer-songwriter and guitarist

1957 – The Crickets release “That’ll be the Day”

1960 – A military coup overthrows the democratic government of Turkey’s President Celâl Bayar; Bayar and 15 other party members are tried for violating Turkey’s constitution and sentenced to death by a kangaroo court appointed by the junta, but Bayar’s sentence is commuted to life imprisonment

1963 – Bob Dylan releases his album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan

1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census – commemorated during Reconciliation Week *

1969 – Construction of Walt Disney World begins in Florida

1977 – The Sex Pistols release their single “God Save the Queen” which will be banned by the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority

1982 – Japan announces elimination of tariffs on 96 industrial goods

1985 – British representatives in Beijing exchange instruments of ratification with Chinese officials for the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997

1986 – Mel Fisher recovers a jar that containing 2,300 emeralds from the Spanish ship Atocha, which sank in the 17th century

1988 – The U.S. Senate ratifies the INF treaty, the first arms-control agreement since the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) in 1972 to receive Senate approval. 1994 – Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia from two decades of exile

1995 – In Charlottesville, VA, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed after being thrown from his horse during a jumping event

1996 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiates a cease-fire with Aslan Maskhadov, the leader of the Chechnya war for independence

1997 –U.S. Supreme Court rules the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones against Bill Clinton could continue while he was serving as U.S. president

1998 – Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison for not warning anyone about the plot to bomb an Oklahoma City federal building.

1999 – In The Hague, Netherlands, a war crimes tribunal indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo, the first time a sitting head of state is charged with crimes against humanity

2005 – Julia Pierpont Day * is proclaimed in West Virginia, to honor her as one of the originators of ‘Decoration Day’ which is now called Memorial Day; in 1866, she was the wife of Restored Virginia Governor Francis Pierpont and decided to organize a clean-up and decoration of the neglected graves of Union soldiers (which were soon to be moved to the Richmond National Cemetery), in Hollywood Cemetery overlooking Richmond; a counter-Decoration Day is held throughout Virginia a few weeks later to decorate the graves of Confederate soldiers; newspaper reports spurred General John A. Logan, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, to order that May 30 will be an annual national “Decoration Day”

2015 – International Heritage Breeds Day * is started as a National Day in the U.S. by the Livestock Conservancy, now also observed in Canada and by conservation organizations in other countries, raising global awareness of endangered breeds of livestock and poultry

2016 – Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet surviving victims of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha (“explosion-affected people”)

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